Experts

Director of the Center for Post-Soviet Studies at the MGIMO University, 2nd Class Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Doctor of History

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Institute of Current International Affairs, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry

Former First Deputy Chief of the Military Science Department, Russian Armed Forces General Staff

Ph.D. in Political Science, Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations, Diplomatic Academy of MFA, Russia

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran)

Ph.D, heads the Eastern Europe and Eurasia Research Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin

Ph.D. candidate in Slavic and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director of the Applied Research Center and Russian Academy of Sciences Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Assistant Professor of the Faculty of World Politics at Lomonosov Moscow State University

PhD in Political Science, associate professor at the School of World Political Processes, research associate at the Center for Post-Soviet Studies, MGIMO University

Ph.D., Research Fellow, Head of the Russian Foreign Policy Research Department at the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

PhD, Tenured Professor, Member of the HSE Academic Council, Academic Supervisor, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University

Research Analyst Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut

Editor-in-Chief of Russia Today TV channel, editor-in-chief of international news agency "Rossiya Segodnya"

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

RIAC Member

Head of Digital and Innovations Research, Associate Professor of Business Practice, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO

Research Fellow of the Department for European Political Studies at Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, MGIMO University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Fellow, IMEMO RAS

PhD (History), Research Fellow at School of International Affairs, Higher School of Economics, Moscow

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

Independent Analyst

Deputy director and senior fellow with the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)